Assistant Centre Manager

We have an opportunity for an Assistant Centre Manager to join the team at our centres based in Central Oxford on a full time, temporary basis working 8:30am - 5:00pm. In return you will receive a competitive salary of up to £22,000 per annum depending on experience plus flexible benefits and a contributory pension.

Oxford Innovation’s Business and Innovation Centres division operates a network of centres that provide flexible office and laboratory space and business support services to companies throughout the UK. Our clients are start-ups, high growth SMEs, investors and also public sector organisations that contract with us to deliver innovation centres and programmes to business. In the past three years we have nearly doubled our number of centres and now manage twenty-three centres across the UK for a variety of public and private sector clients, providing space and support to nearly 1000 exciting, innovative and growing companies.

About the role

As our Assistant Centre Manager you will be a key part of the team providing support to the Centre Director in aspects of operational, marketing and sales activities, to attract new customers to the centre, ensure retention of existing customers and increase operational effectiveness and cost savings.

Key Duties and Responsibilities of our Assistant Centre Manager:

- Ensure our customers within the centre receive an excellent customer service experience
- Support the Centre Director in the overall management control and the commercial success of the centre
- Manage aspects of administration, invoicing and debt control with some involvement in sales and marketing

Our ideal Assistant Centre Manager will have the following skills and experience:

- This is an ideal role for an experienced Office Manager or Senior Administrator in a fast paced environment
- You should possess excellent organisational, communication and customer service skills
- Have a keen eye for detail

Plenty of support and training will be given where necessary

Working hours

This is a part-time role working Monday to Friday mornings working 20 hours per week. The working hours are 8:30am to 12:30pm, however requests for adjusted working hours will be considered. Flexibility will be required to meet the needs of the business.

In our last staff survey, our, ‘people’, ‘colleagues’ and ‘team’ were the most often mentioned reasons why our staff like working here. We were delighted to get some great feedback about our flexible, respectful and friendly working environment, and our benefits package is highly competitive with other similar-sized employers.

If you would like to join our team as our new Assistant Centre Manager then please click ‘apply’ today, we would love to hear from you!

Closing date: 13th May 2018

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds.